Inclusion and Early Childhood Education

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Inclusion and Early Childhood Education
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Population of Young Children with Special Needs

• Birth to age 8
• Children with developmental delays
• Biologically at-risk
• Person first language
• Needs similar to all children
• Food, shelter, love, opportunities to play, learn
  and grow

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Classification of student with special needs

• IDEA-13 catagories under law
• Developmental delay-young children with special
  needs

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What Early Childhood Educators Should Know about
students with Special Needs

• Look at the individual child
• Disorders do not occur in isolation
• Diagnosis may suggest a broad and diverse amount
  of interventions
• Knowledge about various conditions is crucial
• Focus on the wholechild

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Inclusion

• Students attend home school with their age and
  grade peers
• Services and education occurs in natural
  environments
• Proportion of students labeled for special
  services is relatively uniform for all of the
  schools within a particular school district
• Ration reflects the proportion of people with
  disabilities in society at large
• Students receive in- school educational services
  in general classroom with appropriate in-class
  support to maximum extent possible (NASBE)

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Benefits of Preschool Inclusion
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